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Michigan: Ecoterror Sentencing

A former environmental activist who committed arson at Michigan State University in 1999 and later became a government informant was sentenced to nine years in prison. The former activist, Frank Ambrose, 33, pleaded guilty to conspiring to set a fire and explosion that caused more than $1 million in damage to the university’s Agriculture Hall in 1999. It was to protest genetically modified crops in the name of the Earth Liberation Front, of which Mr. Ambrose was a member.